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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. And global. Content goes global (of Maker Studios 4.4

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. We just announced a few more things.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Distribution costs have, too. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. billion deal to Disney. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

Fast forward a couple of years and the company is now beyond 8-figure million of recurring revenue, has dozens of sales reps and growing rapidly and is now gearing up for multiple offices, enterprise integrations and relationships with Salesforce.com, HubSpot, Marketo, Marin Software and many others.

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Seduced By Growth, But Terminal Scale Still Matters

Agile VC

Potential for instant global distribution (mobile app stores, Facebook, etc). It used to take 5-10 years for a great startup to go from $0 to $75-100M+ in annual revenue. Revenue is revenue, right? Both of these companies grew revenue at what was then unprecedented rates. and Groupon’s is $1.6B.

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Revenue Growth For Lenovo In 2Q15 Obscures Unfamiliar Challenges For Its PC And Smartphones Business: TBR

YoungUpstarts

Lenovo’s modest overall revenue growth in calendar 2Q15 – 3.1% billion – masks how sagging performance from its PC business wiped out the momentum Lenovo had generated since 2013 and has forced Lenovo to reset its profit and revenue growth expectations for its enterprise and mobile device businesses. year-to-year to $10.7

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. Who needs freelancers? Have laptop – will freelance.

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